Resort (Paperback, 1st ed)

When Patricia Hampl's first book of poems, Woman Before an Aquarium, appeared in 1978, Choice called it "a generous . . . first collection," and Virginia Quarterly Review characterized her work as "a poetry of accumulated details, strikingly presented."
Now, after the success of her brilliant prose memoir, A Romantic Education, which won a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship, Hampl has taken her poetry a step further in her new collection, Resort. The classical themes of beauty and love, loss and memory have always formed the core of Hampl's work. Here, they are treated in a series of shorter poems and then gathered powerfully into the long title poem of the collection. Set in a small, tumbledown cabin on the North Shore of Lake Superior, Resort follows the season of summer as Hampl explores a period of solitude following a loss, employing as a touchstone the image of the wild rose as it blooms and withers. In essence a poem about healing oneself through paying attention to the world outside, Resort has been called by poet Sandra McPherson "major, richly entangled, ebullient . . . all of a sudden my favorite long poem."

General

Imprint:	Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2001
First published:	April 2001
Authors:	Patricia Hampl
Dimensions:	235 x 140 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	80
Edition:	1st ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-88748-355-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	0-88748-355-0
Barcode:	9780887483554

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